The freezing of chicks is just one example of how human activity is endangering about two thirds of all penguin species, according to a new paper based on decades of research and observations. Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
These articles keep getting scarier and scarier. Yet another warning among increasing warnings that countriesparticularly the United Statesneed to stop jawboning and initiate real action to alter behavior while we still can. The signs keep growing: decreasing marine life, polar bears on the endangered species list, unprecedented ice melting, oil pollution, thousands more penguins dying, coral reefs disappearing, acidic oceans. Humans cannot exist on a planet with dead oceans. Have we reached critical mass in the earths ability to sustain continued increases in population?
